44: Mirela Sula Global Woman Club Founder: Build Your Brand And Go Global

FWEP00044 Mirela Sula Today we have a very special guest. Her name is Mirela Sula, the founder of Global Woman Club. She has a platform that connects a lot of business women around the world.  Our prime purpose in life is to help others. Ms. Sula known her purpose in life from her younger years. And with her knowledge and experience, she used these to inspire women know their rights and how to be confident. (01:27-01:46) Well I’m supposed to be based in London but in the last 3, 4 years I’ve been all over the world. Living my dream of meeting some inspirational woman. Finding their dreams and connections on how we can serve to the world with what we do.  (02:03-02:55) Well the same as you do, because, you know, when you’re living your purpose and when you’re thinking and so loyal to that purpose then everything else will just fall into its places.  Of course, it started with the global magazine because that is my background. I’ve been working in the media for a long time and my passion, of course, worked overtime to help and support women because I came from a culture that women didn’t have a strong voice and they didn’t have that power to express themselves, that's why I always had this passion inside me that everything that I accumulate inside myself, knowledge, experience, networking opportunities to turn it into something that helps others as well.  (04:04-04:34) Well, since we are here now in Singapore with rich women and Robert Kiyosaki, definitely that book has changed in ruling my life but the lives of many women who wanted to become financially independent that was a big thing. I have studied one of their Masters degree and PhD and everything it takes like the culture and of course, family and everything that we embrace while we are growing up in that culture.  Make goals, dream big and live with passion. Change is painful but it is more painful staying stuck somewhere that you don’t belong. Ms. Sula shared how she deals with women who are currently stuck and unhappy with their present lives. (05:32-05:48) Yeah, I keep going. I’m just living the big passion that I have inside me, the big dream. And then I don’t need to go anywhere. Things that I want, they come.  (06:17-06:45) Oh that’s very interesting! When I meet women the day that they know they are stuck and they are looking for a new direction in life and they say Okay, let’s find where you are because that's a very important thing to do the assessment where you are because you don’t know where you are going and before you find out where are you located. You do an assessment of the situation that you are at that moment.  (06:58-07:33) To see if you are still sleeping or you are awakening up slowly. It’s really hard to see that some women they never even get to the awakening up momentum. So until you come to that momentum, no matter how clever you are and how much knowledge you have inside if you are not using that knowledge, if you are not awakened person you just go around then look for different directions but you will not get what you really deserve. So that’s why number 1 is to  find you where you are and to find out if you are still sleeping or awakened.  (08:03-08:33) I always say, look, if you are not happy where you are then, you move because you’re not a tree. That’s why it’s very important to start moving and to be honest, nothing changes until something moves and people keep asking themselves why my life is not changing? Because you’re not moving and if you want something that you never had, you have to do something that you never had done before so that’s why I encourage women first of all, to wake up then to start moving. Learn how to cope because there will really be dark days in our lives. All of us will have bad times, dark days and dark momentum but these dark days will make us stronger. Some of the dark days of Ms. Sula was conquering depression that she had before. (09:09-09:41) Well, that’s very interesting because sometimes you have to reach dark zone, dark momentum and seek for solutions before you see the light. Because of course, we have seen a lot of big names and big personalities now that they care a lot about the challenges that they had in life and difficulties and as a psychologist, I have seen a lot of people come to therapy looking for answers and for solutions after they have flashed. (09:56-10:34)  The big first crashed is when I lost my first child and I went to severe deep depression. At that time, in our culture, psychology was quite a new field, nobody new about depression or stress . Then I gave  to my son and you know, postpartum depression nailed and nobody could help me and that was the biggest dark zone that I experience in my life and I had to choices to do, to just give up my life or just get out of the dark zone.  (12:01-12:26) Well, at that time, was not possible because nobody could help in this situation because as I said psychology  is rare at that time under communist regime and the word depression didn’t exist at the vocabulary. People could go through this difficult issues, science term of issues and never knew what is that about.  (13:52-14:29) I had a private practice in helping people in psychotherapy for quite a long time and I started big movement on helping women empower themselves for me, that was another discovery that if you want to empower yourself, first you have to build your confidence, the confidence of the internal work and that led me to new projects on empowering people around me but especially women where they were always suppress and under pressure and suffering inside. Media can be useful to share impact to people. With Ms. Sula’s knowledge and experience together with the media, she was able to expand their club and it continued inspiring women to move if they are unhappy and be confident.  (14:49-14:59) Now, we have access to more information as I said at that time it was no internet, no computer, nothing you could get  this information anywhere that’s why we're like in an isolation.  (15:08-15:25) Great things have changed the new paradigm has proved that humans have the ability to change themselves to re-brain themselves to re-create themselves and the same I see as an opportunity for women.  (16:38-17:10) So I first started working as a trainer of domestic violence in London one of the biggest organizations in London  and then while working and conducting my PhD research about domestic violence, I realize that two big things why women really suffer on domestic violence is number 1, confidence and number 2 financial dependency and I said how do I turn this into something that, it’s my passion and I wanna turn into business.  (17:43-18:08) Then I came up with this idea of building a new platform. First, interviewing them and finding out their issues, their problems, their concerns, challenges, what are the main problems and then once I learned that if you find the problem then you are in business because you find the solution and that’s it (18:34-19:09) The quest...